Health Affairs July 5, 2022
Federal courts have long played a significant role in shaping health policy, and the Supreme Court’s current term was no exception. This is especially true given a shift in the Court’s makeup, with an emboldened six-to-three conservative majority. The stakes could not have been greater—from bodily autonomy to billions in Medicare funding to the scope of federal agencies’ authority—and the consequences of the Court’s decisions will be felt for decades to come.
This article summarizes several of the recently completed term’s major health care decisions. These decisions focus on the constitutional right to an abortion, the methodology for Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments, and climate change. An earlier article summarized prior decisions on Medicare payment cuts to 340B hospitals, employers’...
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